Blackout:First Energy of Ohio Well guess who they have SERIOUS ties to

[underpants]

Just on ABC WNT (LBN thread tomorrow-no link yet)

-Union officials have accused the company of skimping on maintenance, specifically on power lines.

-First Energy was sued by their stock holders just last week of cooking the books and not reporting to them accurately (we will see how the investigative report on ABC puts it).

-The former CEO was on W's "energy transition team" between the election and inauguration.

Here's the whammy

-First Energy hosted a political fundraiser that VP Dick Cheney spoke at which raised $600,000 for W's re-election campaign.

[Brian Sweat]

1. Is this supposed to surprise anyone?

[underpants]

3. Well not us

It's just the first real link we have seen or at least I have seen.

[theHandpuppet]

2. And I'll just bet...

.. they have Gov. Taft in their hip pocket, too. I wonder how much they contributed to HIS re-election campaign?

Will Buckeyes ever get enough of inept and corrupt Repuke leadership in Columbus????

[underpants]

4. You think they would do a thing like that?

Once again ABC (Brian Ross)comes through. I'm telling you that for a mainstream reporter he has dropped some BOMBS.

As stated above this is not that surprising.

[KoKo]

5. ABC Network news for "old folks" had this on BIG TIME Tonight!

I think the "old folks" get better coverage than we who are here do.....but whatever......

ABC did the whole thing on the Nuclear Plant problems......etc. ....etc.......They were more focused on this story than we here on DU were today. We are losing our "edge" here and the "old folks" are getting better info.......:D

[Oilwellian]

6. I just sent this to Malloy

He's currently discussing the issue and he read this latest news over the air. :D